People & Workforce — strategic view

HR Analysis

Is the chosen plan deliverable from a people perspective? Readiness, skills supply vs demand, people-at-risk register, recruitment pipeline, comms plan.

Overall HR readiness
73
/ 100
Composite of 5 bands. Below 70 indicates the plan should not be committed without intervention.
Pathway coverage82

% of impacted roles that have a drafted pathway (not necessarily signed).

Skills supply64

Today's supply of critical skills as a fraction of forecast demand at +6 months.

Leadership sign-off90

Sign-off readiness across BCM, CHRO, sponsor, sub-org leads. 100 = all signed.

Comms readiness58

Internal comms plan maturity for the change wave. Lower means the org doesn't yet know what's coming.

Attrition risk71

Inverse of flight-risk concentration on people critical to delivering the plan. Higher is better.

Per-scenario HR risk

For each scenario in flight or queued, the HR-side cost, time to readiness, and what would block it.

Cut claims cycle time by 30%

Balanced — claims triage + L1 copilot

medium HR risk
Roles dissolving
2
Roles emerging
2
Pathways
2/4
50%
HR cost
£56k
Time to ready
3.0 mo

Note:Beatrice Sandoval has not yet signed pathway. Policy-Drift Analyst role unfilled and is critical to assessment cadence.

Reduce dispatch exception MTTR by 50%

Exception coach — dispatch resilience

low HR risk
Roles dissolving
0
Roles emerging
1
Pathways
1/1
100%
HR cost
£14k
Time to ready
1.5 mo

Note:Pathway signed both sides; Jamie Okonkwo on track.

Lift renewal rate by 8 pts

Autonomous prep — renewal uplift

high HR risk
Roles dissolving
0
Roles emerging
1
Pathways
0/5
0%
HR cost
£22k
Time to ready
3.7 mo

Note:CSM cohort hasn't been engaged. No pathways drafted. Comms plan not started. CHRO flagged for discussion this week.

Skills — supply vs demand

For each critical skill, current head count vs forecast demand by quarter. Deficit and emerging-unmet skills are where pathways or recruitment must close the gap.

2 abundant3 sufficient5 deficit2 emerging unmet
SkillCat.SupplyQ1Q2Q3Q4TrendStatus
Claims adjudication (L1)
Demand declining as L1 copilot scales.
domain1211864
abundant
Dispatch domain expertise
domain88876
sufficient
Billing process knowledge
Reshape towards continuous reconciliation.
domain54321
abundant
Agent-ops
Critical and growing — single point of failure today.
ai-ops12468
deficit
Policy literacy
policy346810
deficit
Evals literacy
ai-ops23456
deficit
Feedback labelling discipline
ai-ops45678
sufficient
Analytics tooling (SQL/notebooks)
analytics66789
sufficient
Brand-voice editing (CSM)
domain910111212
deficit
Settlement / treasury operations
New requirement from continuous-reconciliation terraform; not in any current job description.
domain00123
emerging unmet
Customer outcome ownership
Outcome Steward role expanding.
leadership23456
deficit
Incident response (agent drift)
On-call rota does not currently include agent-drift response.
ai-ops01234
emerging unmet

People at risk

Named people whose roles are touched by the current adoption plan. Pathway status + flight risk + retention priority drive HR's prioritisation.

PersonCurrent roleTouched byOptionsPathwayFlightRetain
Ravi Mehta
Claims
Engaged. Ravi has been a vocal supporter of the copilot rollout.
Claims Adjuster (L1)
  • Claims — Balanced
  • Exception Triager (emergent, in flight)
in progresslowmedium
Beatrice Sandoval
Claims
Has not signed pathway. Reportedly recruited by competitor. Priya has retention conversation booked for this week.
Claims Adjuster (L2)
  • Claims — Balanced
  • Policy-Drift Analyst (emergent, draft)
  • Lateral move into Compliance (option, not yet drafted)
drafthighhigh
Jamie Okonkwo
Dispatch
First Steward across the org. Becomes the template for others.
Dispatch Coordinator
  • Dispatch — Coach
  • Dispatch — Auto-resolver (queued)
  • Agent Steward (emergent, ready)
readylowhigh
Eleanor Cho
Dispatch
Auto-resolver scenario not yet committed. Eleanor will be impacted if it is. No conversation has happened.
Dispatch Coordinator
  • Dispatch — Auto-resolver (queued)
  • Agent Steward (emergent)
  • Continuous Operations Steward (predicted)
no pathwaymediummedium
Noah Kowalski
Billing
Billing OrgUnit dissolution still 9 months out. Conversations begin Q3.
Billing Specialist
  • Billing — Continuous reconciliation (planning)
  • Settlement Steward (emergent, predicted)
no pathwaylowmedium
Ines Marchetti
Billing
Has expressed interest in Treasury direction. Should be engaged early.
Billing Specialist
  • Billing — Continuous reconciliation (planning)
  • Treasury Analyst (emergent, predicted)
  • Customer Success Operations
no pathwaymediummedium
CSM cohort (5 people)
Customer Success
Highest concentration of un-engaged people-at-risk. CHRO flagged.
Customer Success Manager
  • Renewal — Autonomous prep (draft)
  • Outcome Manager (role expanding)
  • Customer Strategy Lead (predicted)
no pathwaymediumhigh
Tom Whitfield
Billing
Already moved through one transition. Confident on the second; pathway in draft.
Head of Billing
  • Billing — autonomous
  • Billing — continuous reconciliation
  • Agent Steward (Settlement) — draft
draftlowhigh

Recruitment assessment

Where internal pathways won't close the gap. Talent market, build vs buy, and current pipeline per emergent role.

Total need
18
Internal coverage
7
External hires needed
11
High-risk roles
2
Postings live
2
Offers out
1

Agent Steward

Build vs buy: hybrid
high risk
Total need
4
Internal 1 · External 3
Median salary
£95k
scarce
Time to hire
2.8 mo
Competitor activity: high

Market:Agent Steward as a job title barely existed 12 months ago. We're competing with 3 named local rivals plus the SaaS vendors themselves. Premium of ~18% over comparable engineering roles.

47 active applications8 interviewing2 final stage1 offers out
Recommendation

Hybrid: lock in the internal Steward (Jamie) as the template, hire 2 externally on permanent, accept that the third headcount is contractor-first while we calibrate the role.

Exception Triager (Claims)

Build vs buy: build
medium risk
Total need
2
Internal 2 · External 0
Median salary
£58k
abundant
Time to hire
1.4 mo
Competitor activity: low

Market:Adjacent to existing claims-adjudicator pool. No external recruitment expected to be needed for this role.

No external posting live for this role yet.
Recommendation

Internal only. Pathways for Ravi and Beatrice. Hold an external posting in reserve in case Beatrice declines.

Policy-Drift Analyst

Build vs buy: hybrid
medium risk
Total need
2
Internal 1 · External 1
Median salary
£72k
moderate
Time to hire
2.1 mo
Competitor activity: medium

Market:The combination of policy literacy + analytics tooling is uncommon but not impossible. Compliance candidates who've done some SQL work are the natural pool.

22 active applications3 interviewing0 final stage0 offers out
Recommendation

Pursue both directions in parallel. Internal: Beatrice (pending). External: keep posting open until at least one offer is out.

Customer Outcome Steward

Build vs buy: build
low risk
Total need
3
Internal 2 · External 1
Median salary
£64k
moderate
Time to hire
1.9 mo
Competitor activity: medium

Market:Customer Success backgrounds are abundant; agent-aware ones are not.

No external posting live for this role yet. 2 hired recently.
Recommendation

Two filled internally (Noah, Ines). One additional needed by Q3 — recruit externally with bias toward CS-with-AI-exposure.

Continuous Operations Steward

Build vs buy: buy
high risk
Total need
5
Internal 0 · External 5
Median salary
£88k
scarce
Time to hire
3.3 mo
Competitor activity: high

Market:Speculative until dispatch resequencer is committed. If the org goes that direction in Q4, this becomes the largest single recruitment exposure of the entire programme.

No external posting live for this role yet.
Recommendation

Don't recruit yet. Decision-pending. If the Resequencer scenario is committed, this becomes the highest-risk recruitment line in the plan.

Settlement Steward / Treasury Analyst

Build vs buy: hybrid
medium risk
Total need
2
Internal 1 · External 1
Median salary
£78k
moderate
Time to hire
2.3 mo
Competitor activity: medium

Market:Financial-ops backgrounds with TMS/ERP exposure. Specialty premium of ~10%.

No external posting live for this role yet.
Recommendation

Begin posting at decision-commitment, not before. Internal: Ines as candidate.

Communications timeline

Who needs to hear what, when, and through which channel. Drives the comms-readiness band on the readiness scorecard.

  1. Plan announcement (executive)
    T-12 weeksdone
    Executive Committee · via Exec offsite

    AI Adoption plan for FY26-Q2/Q3, with named Objectives, scenarios, and BCM owner.

  2. Sub-org leadership briefing
    T-10 weeksdone
    Heads of Claims, Dispatch, CS, Billing · via 1:1 + briefing pack

    Per-OrgUnit impact summary. Workforce implications. Sign-off requested by week 8.

  3. Wave 1 affected-person conversations
    T-8 weeksdone
    Wave 1: Claims + Dispatch (5 people) · via Manager 1:1 supported by HRBP

    What the platform is for, what changes for you specifically, what your pathway options are, what timeline.

  4. Wave 1 all-hands
    T-6 weeksdone
    All Helios staff · via Town hall + recording + FAQ

    What's changing, why, what to expect, who to ask. Public Q&A.

  5. Wave 2 affected-person conversations
    T-2 weeksdrafting
    Wave 2: CSM cohort + Billing (8 people) · via Manager 1:1 supported by HRBP

    Same as wave 1 but for the renewal-uplift and continuous-reconciliation tracks.

  6. Quarterly progress update
    Every 13 weeksscheduled
    All Helios staff · via Town hall + posted note

    Progress, drift events, decisions taken since last update, what's next, named outcomes for affected people.